Re: gettext 0.14.5 compile issue

[Jason Keltz]

Bruno Haible wrote:
> Jason Keltz wrote:
>
> > >  - If you go into the gettext-tools/intl/ directory and do "make" there,
> > >    what is "make"'s output? Does it build localename.lo?
> >
> > Nope.  Make output is simply:
> >
> > make: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> >
> > .. yet the directory only contains:
> >
> > ChangeLog.inst  Makefile  VERSION
>
>
> OK, that points to incorrect configuration results. I bet the
> gettext-tools/config.status contains
>
> s,@BUILD_INCLUDED_LIBINTL@,no,;t t
> s,@USE_INCLUDED_LIBINTL@,no,;t t
>
> How can this be if, as you said, you invoked "configure" with only a
> prefix option?
>   - You're sure you didn't pass --disable-nls?
>   - You don't have the CONFIG_SITE environment variable set?
>   - No files PREFIX/share/config.site or PREFIX/etc/config.site exist,
>     for the PREFIX that you passed?
>
> If this is all true, then in order to debug this, I'd need from a fresh
> build (unpack gettext-0.14.5.tar.gz in a fresh directory, then configure it
> as you did) the complete output of the configure command and the generated
> gettext-tools/config.log.
>
> Bruno

Hi Bruno,

You were half right about gettext-tools/config.status:

s,@BUILD_INCLUDED_LIBINTL@,yes,;t t
s,@USE_INCLUDED_LIBINTL@,no,;t t

I didn't pass --disable-nls.
I don't have a CONFIG_SITE environment variable set.
I don't have PREFIX/share/config.site or PREFIX/etc/config.site

Normally, I don't build these programs by hand.  We have a system that 
basically uncompresses the package, runs configure with the prefix, does 
a make, and then a make install, and that is what I've been doing.  It 
has worked with every other GNU package that I've ever installed, and I 
didn't think anything of it.  When I uncompress gettext manually, and 
run configure with the exact same arguments manually on the command 
line, the compilation process completes successfully.  I'm shocked 
because I can't imagine what the problem would be.

Here is the diff output from 
gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools/config.status.  The first argument to diff 
is the not working compile (-), and the second argument is the working 
compile (+)...

--------------------------------------------------------------------
--- xsys.32647.0/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools/config.status	Wed Aug  3 
10:25:03 2005
+++ gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools/config.status  Wed Aug  3 11:11:44 2005
@@ -303,13 +303,13 @@
 Report bugs to <address@hidden>."
 ac_cs_version="\
 config.status
-configured by /tmp/xsys.32647.0/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools/configure, 
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59,
-  with options \"'--prefix=/xsys' 'CC=gcc' 'CXX=g++' 
'--cache-file=/dev/null' 
'--srcdir=/tmp/xsys.32647.0/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools'\"
+configured by ./configure, generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59,
+  with options \"'--prefix=/xsys' 'CC=gcc' 'CXX=g++' 
'--cache-file=/dev/null' '--srcdir=.'\"

 Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 This config.status script is free software; the Free Software Foundation
 gives unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it."
-srcdir=/tmp/xsys.32647.0/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools
+srcdir=.
 INSTALL="/usr/bin/install -c"
 # If no file are specified by the user, then we need to provide default
 # value.  By we need to know if files were specified by the user.
@@ -383,8 +383,8 @@
 fi

 if $ac_cs_recheck; then
-  echo "running /bin/sh 
/tmp/xsys.32647.0/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools/configure " 
'--prefix=/xsys' 'CC=gcc' 'CXX=g++' '--cache-file=/dev/null' 
'--srcdir=/tmp/xsys.32647.0/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools' 
$ac_configure_extra_args " --no-create --no-recursion" >&6
-  exec /bin/sh /tmp/xsys.32647.0/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools/configure 
'--prefix=/xsys' 'CC=gcc' 'CXX=g++' '--cache-file=/dev/null' 
'--srcdir=/tmp/xsys.32647.0/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools' 
$ac_configure_extra_args --no-create --no-recursion
+  echo "running /bin/sh ./configure " '--prefix=/xsys' 'CC=gcc' 
'CXX=g++' '--cache-file=/dev/null' '--srcdir=.' $ac_configure_extra_args 
" --no-create --no-recursion" >&6
+  exec /bin/sh ./configure '--prefix=/xsys' 'CC=gcc' 'CXX=g++' 
'--cache-file=/dev/null' '--srcdir=.' $ac_configure_extra_args 
--no-create --no-recursion
 fi

 #
@@ -519,12 +519,12 @@
 s,@CYGPATH_W@,echo,;t t
 s,@PACKAGE@,gettext-tools,;t t
 s,@VERSION@,0.14.5,;t t
-s,@ACLOCAL@,${SHELL} /tmp/xsys.32647.0/gettext-0.14.5/build-aux/missing 
--run aclocal-1.9,;t t
-s,@AUTOCONF@,${SHELL} 
/tmp/xsys.32647.0/gettext-0.14.5/build-aux/missing --run autoconf,;t t
-s,@AUTOMAKE@,${SHELL} 
/tmp/xsys.32647.0/gettext-0.14.5/build-aux/missing --run automake-1.9,;t t
-s,@AUTOHEADER@,${SHELL} 
/tmp/xsys.32647.0/gettext-0.14.5/build-aux/missing --run autoheader,;t t
-s,@MAKEINFO@,${SHELL} 
/tmp/xsys.32647.0/gettext-0.14.5/build-aux/missing --run makeinfo,;t t
-s,@install_sh@,/tmp/xsys.32647.0/gettext-0.14.5/build-aux/install-sh,;t t
+s,@ACLOCAL@,${SHELL} /tmp/gettext-0.14.5/build-aux/missing --run 
aclocal-1.9,;t t
+s,@AUTOCONF@,${SHELL} /tmp/gettext-0.14.5/build-aux/missing --run 
autoconf,;t t
+s,@AUTOMAKE@,${SHELL} /tmp/gettext-0.14.5/build-aux/missing --run 
automake-1.9,;t t
+s,@AUTOHEADER@,${SHELL} /tmp/gettext-0.14.5/build-aux/missing --run 
autoheader,;t t
+s,@MAKEINFO@,${SHELL} /tmp/gettext-0.14.5/build-aux/missing --run 
makeinfo,;t t
+s,@install_sh@,/tmp/gettext-0.14.5/build-aux/install-sh,;t t
 s,@STRIP@,strip,;t t
 s,@ac_ct_STRIP@,strip,;t t
 s,@INSTALL_STRIP_PROGRAM@,${SHELL} $(install_sh) -c -s,;t t
@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@
 s,@AWK@,gawk,;t t
 s,@SET_MAKE@,,;t t
 s,@am__leading_dot@,.,;t t
-s,@AMTAR@,${SHELL} /tmp/xsys.32647.0/gettext-0.14.5/build-aux/missing 
--run tar,;t t
+s,@AMTAR@,${SHELL} /tmp/gettext-0.14.5/build-aux/missing --run tar,;t t
 s,@am__tar@,${AMTAR} chof - "$$tardir",;t t
 s,@am__untar@,${AMTAR} xf -,;t t
 s,@localedir@,${datadir}/locale,;t t
@@ -674,8 +674,8 @@
 s,@EMACSLOADPATH@,,;t t
 s,@lispdir@,${datadir}/emacs/site-lisp,;t t
 s,@aclocaldir@,${datadir}/aclocal,;t t
-s,@DVIPS@,/tmp/xsys.32647.0/gettext-0.14.5/build-aux/missing dvips,;t t
-s,@TEXI2PDF@,/tmp/xsys.32647.0/gettext-0.14.5/build-aux/missing 
texi2pdf,;t t
+s,@DVIPS@,/tmp/gettext-0.14.5/build-aux/missing dvips,;t t
+s,@TEXI2PDF@,/tmp/gettext-0.14.5/build-aux/missing texi2pdf,;t t
 s,@PERL@,/xsys/bin/perl,;t t
 s,@CROSS_COMPILING@,no,;t t
 s,@LOCALE_FR@,none,;t t
@@ -886,7 +886,14 @@
         fi;;
       esac
     done` || { (exit 1); exit 1; }
-  sed "
+  sed "/^[         ]*VPATH[        ]*=/{
+s/:*\$(srcdir):*/:/;
+s/:*\${srcdir}:*/:/;
+s/:address@hidden@:*/:/;
+s/^\([^=]*=[    ]*\):*/\1/;
+s/:*$//;
+s/^[^=]*=[      ]*$//;
+}

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